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Although rarely spoken about by society, child abuse is one of the nation's most pressing
problems today. As population continues to grow, so does the number of unwanted and
unplanned children. It is estimated that six or seven out of a hundred children will be maltreated
or neglected. Child abuse can come in three forms: (1) passive cruelty in the neglect of children
by an unloving or uneducated parent; (2) occasional cruelty in the momentary violent reaction
of a frustrated or overburdened parent; and (3) consistent, deliberate cruelty in uncontrollable
actions by mentally sick parent. Simple neglect is easiest to correct. Actual abuse on the spur of
the moment is more serious, but still much less so than continual abuse due to mental illness.
1. The passage suggests that the problem of child abuse ....
A. is slowly being overcome
B. has been greatly overestimated
C. does not receive as much attention as it should
D. is confined to only a little over 10% of the population
2. The most serious type of child abuse .....
A. is that perpetuated wilfully by an unbalanced parent.
B. is also the type that can most easily be corrected
C. first occurred when parents had to work long hours and were under stress
D. is due to ignorance or lack of interest, and so is impossible to correct
3. The passage points out that the parents of abused children .....
A. are often very well educated people
B. usually take pleasure in hurting their children
C. are never deliberately cruel
D. very often have social and mental problems
During 1974 the two major problems that has faced the industrially developed countries were
an unprecedented rise in prices and a serious deterioration in the external payments position,
both legacies of the quadrupling of oil prices at the end of the previous year." Most
governments, therefore, were forced to adopt monetary and fiscal policies aimed at curbing
inflation, and by the early 1975 the external payments position had improved some-what in
most Western industrialized countries. These anti-inflationary policies, however, depressed the
level of business activity.
4. The economic crisis of 1974 ...
A. had a serious and lasting impact on unemployment
B. grew even more serious in 1975 in all the Western industrialized societies
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